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Mon 11 Nov 2008An Irishman's Diary
EFFING referee. Granted, it was a county final and swearing at the referee is nothing new in the GAA, writes Pól Ó Muirí(Yes, I have done it myself. Even booed one or two of them off the pitch.) But the swearing that was coming from this club loyalist was at a level I had never experienced.
From the throw-in to the final whistle, he abused the referee with all his being and it was that little Anglo-Saxon four-letter verb and it its seven-letter participle that was his weapon of choice.
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